The Japanese conducted brutal biological warfare experiments in World War II; both the U.S. and the Soviet Union stockpiled ...

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in ...

resulting in the Biological Weapons Convention. This international treaty, while largely considered effective, did not fully dispel the threat of biological weapons. As recently as the early 1990s ...

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or ...

Researchers are divided on whether the rapid improvement in AI technologies in recent years makes bioterror or war more ...

The Geneva Convention made an attempt to severely ... and Germany had large-scale biological weapons programs largely focusing on anthrax, botulinum toxin, plague, and other diseases.

TASS/. A meeting of the signatories to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention will be held next week following Russia’s initiative, and there Moscow will show proofs of violations by the ...

Powerful new models, combined with novel lab tools, could make it much easier to develop killer viruses. The world should ...

As D-Day drew near, Gen. George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff, dispatched a messenger to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in London. Eisenhower was instructed to meet alone with the messenger, a mere ...

More specific AI programs trained on biological data, known as biological design tools, are even more powerful. Over time, such programs could speed the development of entirely new pathogens with ...

If the Biological Weapons Convention can’t be toughened because of diplomatic frictions, like-minded countries should at least agree on a set of best practices, as they’ve begun to do with AI.

For as deadly as the coronavirus pandemic was, the next one could be more nightmarish. Powerful new artificial-intelligence models, combined with novel lab tools, could soon enable rogue scientists or ...